County Commissioner, Two Others Indicted For Alleged Torture
By Phil Williams
Chief Investigative Reporter
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Three men -- including a Rutherford County commissioner -- were arrested Thursday morning after being indicted for the alleged torture of a business associate.
Commissioner Matthew Young, Murfreesboro businessman Bubba Hutson and Mississippi resident Harvey Felsher are charged in indictments returned by the Rutherford County Grand Jury with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault and extortion. Young and Hutson are also charged with simple domestic assault.
All three men turned themselves into the Rutherford County Jail at about 10:45 a.m. for booking. They were released on a $100,000 bond.
The indictments stem from an alleged incident, first reported by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, where the men are accused of assaulting ticket scalper Kenneth Cooper of Nashville in July 2012 after he sold them some counterfeit tickets to a Justin Bieber concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
Cooper has claimed that the men had invested tens of thousands of dollars in his ticket-scalping venture.
"They confronted me and put a dog collar behind my neck and repeatedly burned me with cigarettes," Cooper told NewsChannel 5 in an exclusive interview.
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